The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The economic value of fuel treatments: a review of the recent literature for fuel treatment planning
This review synthesizes the scientific literature on fuel treatment economics published since 2013 with a focus on its implications for land managers and policy makers. We review the literature on whether fuel treatments are financially viable for land management agencies at the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, McDermott
We undertake a nationwide US study to estimate how mega-fires (defined as wildfires >100,000 acres in size) affect short-term infant health outcomes in communities located within the flame zone. This is the first study to look exclusively at mega-fires, which have unique…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paul, LeDuc, Lassiter, Moorhead, Noyes, Leibowitz
Wildfires have increased in frequency in many ecosystems, with implications for human health and the environment, including water quality. Increased fire frequency and urbanization also raise the prospect of fires burning into urban areas, mobilizing pollutants few have…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices. Many of these fires occur at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), areas where development and wildland areas overlap and which are…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the spring of 2022, wildfires caused by escaped prescribed fires compelled Chief Randy Moore of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to call for a 90-day pause in the agency’s prescribed fire program pending a program review.
A review team led…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liang, Liu, Wang, Wang
Climate change is exacerbating the fire activity in Alaska, which exposes lives and properties to great risk, especially residents living in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). Therefore, it is crucial to characterize the spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of WUI and assess…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jha, Zhou
This article presents a machine learning (ML) based metamodeling framework for firebrand production prediction. This framework was implemented to predict the firebrand areal mass density (FAMD) and firebrand areal number density (FAND) of landing firebrands using a large set of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zong, Tian
Most wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas in the world will face severe wildfire risks due to climate warming and rapid urbanization. Mitigating the damage caused by WUI fires has become a worthy topic for fire researchers and managers. In recent years, WUI fires have occurred…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Escobedo, Sloggy, Sanchez
Larger and more severe wildfires are becoming more frequent and impacting different communities and human settlements. Much of the scientific literature and media on wildfires has focused on area of ecosystems burned and numbers of structures destroyed. Equally unprecedented,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are among the worst natural and man-made disasters currently facing our nation. The damage a wildfire causes is multifaceted as it affects multiple areas of civilization and the safety and health of responding firefighters. Today, factors such as climate change and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elhami-Khorasani, Ebrahimian, Buja, Cutter, Kosović, Lareau, Meacham, Rowell, Taciroglu, Thompson, Watts
Wildfires are an essential part of a healthy ecosystem, yet the expansion of the wildland-urban interface, combined with climatic changes and other anthropogenic activities, have led to the rise of wildfire hazards in the past few decades. Managing future wildfires and their…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perez-Ramirez, Graziani, Santoni, Ziegler, Hoffman, Mell, Tihay-Felicelli, Ganteaume
Research applications of three-dimensional, time-dependent, computational fluid dynamics fire behavior models, such as the Wildland Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) [1,2], FIRETEC [3], or FIRESTAR3D [4], are progressively increasing. This is due to advances in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Nkonya, Galford
As global climate change progresses, the United States (US) is expected to experience warmer temperatures as well as more frequent and severe extreme weather events, including heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires. Each year, these events cost dozens of lives and do billions of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hill, Jaeger, Smith
[From the Report Summary]
Background: The American Lung Association commissioned a report, written by PSE Healthy Energy, to answer the question: What does the current research say about the potential of prescribed fire to mitigate the increasing health and air quality risks…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moritz, Hazard, Johnston, Mayes, Mowery, Oran, Parkinson, Schmidt, Wesolowski
There are thousands of communities and millions of homes in fire-prone wildland–urban interface (WUI) environments. Although future developments may be sited and designed to be more survivable and resistant to losses, an over-arching strategy is needed for those that are already…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barbosa, Reis, Raposo, Viegas
Wildland fires are frequent events worldwide, particularly in the European-Mediterranean region, USA, and Australia. These fires have been more frequent and intense in recent years due to climate changes and may cause significant damage, especially when reaching the Wildland-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richter, Bathras, Barbetta Duarte, Gollner
Fires occurring at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) have rapidly increased in frequency and severity over the past few decades. As a result of these extreme fires, multiple communities, including thousands of structures, are destroyed every year. The majority of these losses…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Penney, Baker, Valencia, Gorham
The hazard posed by wildland-urban-interface (WUI) fires is recognized by the international fire research community and features as one of nine research need priority threads in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Research Roadmap. We posit that the first step in the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vazquez-Varela, Martínez-Navarro, Abad-González
Building fire-adaptive communities and fostering fire-resilient landscapes have become two of the main research strands of wildfire science that go beyond strictly biophysical viewpoints and call for the integration of complementary visions of landscapes and the communities…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the guide. At the Forest Service,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edalati-nejad, Ghodrat, Fanaee, Simeoni
This paper presents an investigation on the effect of fire intensity of a wind driven surface fire, similar to a large wildfire, on an idealized structure located downstream from the fire source. A numerical simulation was conducted using an open source CFD code called FireFOAM…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harvey, Holz, Huang, Hurteau, Ilangakoon, Jennings, Jones, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Kobziar, Kominoski, Kosović, Krawchuk, Laris, Leonard, Loria-Salazar, Lucash, Mahmoud, Margolis, Maxwell, McCarty, McWethy, Meyer, Miesel, Moser, Nagy, Niyogi, Palmer, Pellegrini, Poulter, Robertson, Rocha, Sadegh, Santos, Scordo, Sexton, Sharma, Smith, Soja, Still, Swetnam, Syphard, Tingley, Tohidi, Trugman, Turetsky, Varner, Wang, Whitman, Yelenik, Zhang
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of global change, impacting people and the biophysical systems on which they depend. As part of the newly…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hazra, Gallagher
With wildfire-risk rising globally, the role of home insurance continues to remain under-studied in the search for mechanisms to mitigate loss from wildfire. This study investigates whether insurance policies effectively discourage homeownership in fire-prone zones. Using zip-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES